For the 3,500 Teens at the Annual BBYO Convention, the World Needs Their Help

Jewish News Syndicate February 25, 2020 BY JAMES RUSSELL The Israeli delegation leads attendees in singing Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, at BBYO International Convention in Dallas, Feburary 2020. Photo by Jason Dixson Photography. Global economies, issues and relationships are crucial, but climate change, emphasized participants and youth organizers, “is the issue of the time.” […]

Israeli Teens Learn Public Diplomacy Skills to Serve as Ambassadors Abroad

Jewish News Syndicate February 25, 2020 BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN Tevel students outside the Israeli Knesset with Alon Sternberg, far left, the program’s director. Photo by Or Tsfati. A new initiative by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs called Tevel (“universe” in Hebrew) focuses on Jewish leadership, history and advocacy skills. Itay Green, 16, wants to improve the […]

StandWithUs Statement Regarding Senator Bernie Sanders Attack on AIPAC

February 25, 2020 We fully agree with AIPAC’s response to Senator Bernie Sanders. His shameful attack against AIPAC stands in stark contrast to his silence as dozens of Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets rained down on Israeli playgrounds and homes from Gaza during the last two days.  StandWithUs is proud to have a large delegation attending […]

YouTube Removes Channel Calling Trump Impeachment a ‘Jew Coup’

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 2-21-2020 YouTube removed the TruNews channel, whose founder referred to the impeachment of President Donald Trump as a “Jew coup,” from the platform on Feb. 20. TruNews announced that it had been banned in a tweet. Jewish groups praised YouTube for banning TruNews. “We hope other social media platforms will follow […]

Student steals mezuzah, Jewish classmate takes him to Holocaust memorial

The Jerusalem Post By JERUSALEM POST STAFF FEBRUARY 18, 2020 University student Maddy Gun says she believes in the power of education to fight antisemitism. As antisemitism is on the rise in the United States, including on university campuses, American Jews’ sense of safety has been seriously harmed. But many, refuse to live in fear […]

Former IDF Officer Speaks to California Students About Israel’s Humanitarian Aid to Syrians

The Algemeiner by Algemeiner Staff FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Former IDF officer Eyal Dror during a speaking tour of California universities in February 2020. Photo: Students Supporting Israel. A former Israel Defense Forces officer who led a humanitarian response to the bloody Syrian conflict recently spent a week touring university campuses in California, in a bid […]

After six-hour debate, University of Illinois student government passes BDS resolution

JNS February 13, 2020 BY JACKSON RICHMAN Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community. Students, faculty and clergy gather at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a vote to pass a BDS resolution on campus, a […]

StandWithUs Condemns the Illinois Student Government For Voting Yes To Divestment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2020 StandWithUs Condemns the Illinois Student Government For Voting Yes To Divestment (Champaign, IL, 02/12/2020) — StandWithUs condemns the University of Illinois (UIUC) student government (ISG) for passing a discriminatory and misleading resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel. It passed with a vote of 20 in favor, […]

MSU Student Educates Perpetrator Who Stole Her Mezuzah

The Jewish News Maddy Gun February 4, 2020 Maddy Gun takes action to educate the suspect who stole her mezuzah from her doorpost on campus. I am the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. At 8 years old, my grandfather was hiding in the woods for more than two years with his brother, who was 18. […]

Home Local Article Jewish student teaches thief a lesson

WILX 10 NBC Kylie Khan February 10, 2020 “I came back to my apartment one day, and I saw that my mezuzah was ripped off and stolen,” said Gun. The decorative case held a prayer and is often found on the doorpost of Jewish homes. Gun filed a police report with East Lansing police who […]

Anti-Semitism on US campuses may force schools to choose free speech or bigotry

Times of Israel Cathryn J. Prince February 11, 2020 NEW YORK — Long before she stood on a podium with US President Donald Trump, before she became the young woman who sued New York University, she was Jewish college student Adela Cojab, who studied Arabic and liked kanafeh. Back in 2015, Cojab was a freshman […]

University of Illinois student government set to vote on ‘divisive’ BDS resolution

JNS / Jewish New Syndicate Jackson Richman February 11, 2020 The student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is scheduled to vote on a BDS resolution on Wednesday that calls on the university to divest from “companies that profit from human-rights violations in Palestine and other communities globally,” as well as from […]

StandWithUs Condemns Discriminatory UNHRC Blacklist

(Geneva — February 12th, 2020) — StandWithUs strongly condemns the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) discriminatory blacklist targeting companies that do business with Jews in the West Bank/Judea & Samaria released  on February 12, 2020. Flag of the U.N. (Photo: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock.com) “Multiple UN Secretary Generals have publicly admitted that the UNHRC systematically […]

Georgetown Research Project Calls Hamas a ‘Political and Social Organization’

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER FEB 5, 2020 White-Gravenor Hall, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jon Bilous / Shutterstock) A research project at Georgetown University has a fact sheet that refers to Hamas as “a political and social organization.” The Bridge Initiative, which describes itself on its website as “a multi-year research project […]

Amid chaos, UC Berkeley student government delays vote against terrorist display

Jewish News Syndicate BY JACKSON RICHMAN February 5, 2020 “Jewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled and threatened with physical threats of violence … Jewish students should never feel threatened and should NEVER fear for their safety while on campus,” posted campus group Tikvah: Students for Israel, on Facebook. Students with UC Berkeley’s “Bears for Israel” […]

StandWithUs Offers Rewards to Catch Perpetrators of Hate Crimes Against Jews Anywhere in the World

(Los Angeles, CA — February 3, 2020) — StandWithUs and the Mizel Family Foundation are proud to announce the launch of a fund dedicated to combating antisemitic hate crimes. Effective immediately, StandWithUs will offer cash rewards to individuals who provide law enforcement with information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who engage in […]

Clarification of the StandWithUs book list that was printed in The Forward

February 2, 2020 This weeks edition of the Forward includes a reading list attributed to me and StandWithUs. We sent the list in response to a specific question: “What books should Jared Kushner read to help create a peace plan?” The list that was printed was meant to offer readers an opportunity to learn about […]

StandWithUs ‘Israel in Focus’ International Conference Recap

The Times of Israel Eli Kia January 26, 2020 “This conference taught me what the word Zionist truly means,” said Gila Braun, who attends Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles, CA. StandWithUs (SWU) shared its mission of educating about Israel and combating antisemitism with over 550 diverse high school and university students from around […]